Jessie Kathy Interiors

Understanding different perspectives of an object helped me to learn a lot during this exercise. The desk and its objects were portrayed differently within every angle I looked at it. I had an extremely difficult time when drawing the legs because of the aspect of perspective. I also had a difficult time with shading, since there is a pretty even lighting throughout our entire studio. 

Practicing circles in perspective ended up being a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. However, I noticed that it definitely helped while I was practicing drawing cylinders later in the week.  These shapes help to make the objects in my drawing seem more 3-dimensional and realistic. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the Euclidean rendering exercise. It was interesting to understand how light is portrayed differently on different types of surfaces. I was also able to grasp a better understanding on how a cast shadow should be portrayed and how it should fade. 

The first two images are practice for the final Name It drawings. I tried to focus more so on how the 3-D objects on sculpture casted shadows on to the rest of the sculpture. I enjoyed drawing from the perspective of the side of the model more than looking straight at it. It was easier to add and show dimension from the side angles. 

Here 3 types of contour drawings were practiced; blind, modified, and cross-contour. The blind contour drawings are the top two. I struggled with this greatly, although I did notice that it got be to focus more so on the object. The second two drawings are modified contour drawings. This was my favorite type of contour drawing to do as I was able to focus on both the object and the paper simultaneously. The last two drawings are cross-contour drawings. This type of contour drawing was slightly more difficult for me, but I feel like it helped me to understand measurements and proportions of objects more. 

While practicing in the atrium, we were told to focus on proportion. I found this extremely difficult as my mind sees the whole box, while my eyes do not. Letting go of what your brain is telling you and understanding what your eyes are telling you has proven to be extremely difficult for me. 

In this drawing, the proportions on my box drawing were better, however, the drawing of the background isn't depicted correctly. The use of hatching helped to ground the box.

This was a more difficult view of the box while I was drawing it, though I'm happy with how it turned out. I could definitely use more practice on drawing and shading stairs. 

The first shading technique I tried was hatching and cross hatching in which I did in pencil. This was my favorite technique to do because I found it easier to do the shading than the other two techniques. I picked many objects with curved surfaces so that I could practice creating dimension with shading. 

Stippling with a pen was the next shading technique I practiced. Although I enjoy how my drawing turned out, I did not enjoy how time consuming this technique was. However, I do enjoy how the bottle in the background turned out, more-so than I do in my other two drawings. 

Scribbling with charcoal was the final shading technique I practiced. I found this to be difficult as it is pretty messy. I struggled with shading the pumpkin on this particular trial because I needed it to become more of a gradient than it is now.